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Planning For A Sightseeing Trip In A Helicopter *

Why stand and stare up at the sky when you can head off on a helicopter sightseeing tour? For groups and people tired of sidewalk crowds, long lines and double-decker buses contending with busy traffic, a helicopter tour is the perfect thing, be it during a holiday or as a way to experience a city like never before. But, with limited space, the unpredictability of…

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How I’m Making a Little Extra Cash Now I’m Freelance *

As you all know, I made the leap this month; I quit my job, become freelance and am taking the time out I need to find the job I really want to do. So obviously, I now don’t have a guaranteed income I’ve been finding new ways to top up my cash flow every month and one that I’ve found that’s mega easy to use. It’s…

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Why I Can’t Wait to have a Home with Our Own Garden *

Hopefully this time next year we will be well into our search for a home to purchase! I’m taking a step up and becoming a real adult. I mean I’m semi-adult now living with a boyfriend and cooking etc, but I’m going to level up to homeowner status! Mike already owns the flat we live in so he’s already a full-blown adult, at times, but…

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How Will We be Celebrating this Valentine’s Day?

We aren’t into Valentine’s; I don’t need one day a year to tell Mike I’d marry him tomorrow if I could, and I’m sure he doesn’t need one day a year to tell me he’d love me even I didn’t buy him a camera and the drone! We already know that for a fact, we tell each other when we want cuz we’re just cute…

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What Trends will Hit our Homes this Year in 2018? *

The best part of being a homeowner is making the much-needed changes to keep up with the home-décor trends that come and go. We’re now in 2018, and there’s a whole new array of trends out, so will you be joining in on them!? A blast from the past; Trends that made Waves in 2017 In order to make reasonable predictions for 2018, we need…

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What I Packed for Spending a Week in Shropshire *

As you will have seen, we’ve recently spent just over a week in the lush Shropshire Hills and with it being our fifth visit there, I’m gradually getting better with what to pack for the two of us with the ever-changing weather. This year we took a far better amount of bags; I think it was just a large suitcase for clothes, two hand luggage cases…

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How Much do Home Improvements Add to a Home’s Value?

The price tags associated with home improvements can easily put you off going ahead with a project, it’s something we always toy with before doing work in the flat. After all, data from the Office for National Statistics has predicted that those in the UK collectively spend almost £30 billion on home improvements annually, which is a hell of a lot of money. That works…

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Quirky Gift Ideas with UncommonGoods *

For those of you that are new around here, I’m a big fan of gifts that aren’t the norm. I love having local creatives create gifts for me to share with friends and family so it’s that little bit more personal. Sometimes I do find it a little tough to find something I want as there are only so many hand-drawn prints you can give…

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